Spammers establish their own fake URL-shortening services

For the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection, according to Symantec.

This new spamming activity has contributed to this month’s increase in spam by 2.9 percentage points, a rise that was also expected following the Rustock botnet takedown in March — via redwolf.newsvine.com